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Category: Politics

Law

Obscure no more: Brexit and the Nobile Officium

posted by Kirsty Crosbie December 5, 201910 min read43 Views

What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.

Photograph of ruins in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as a result of the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict
International Relations

A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA December 4, 20198 min read46 Views

Laurence Broers writes on the 30-year Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict: one of the most embittered territorial disputes in the world.

Ohannes Topalian
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

A story of Armenian migration to North America

posted by Emma at EUP September 5, 20197 min read428 Views

By David Gutman In April 1906, a man appeared at the United States consulate in Sivas, a city located deep…

How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring

posted by Emma at EUP August 30, 201910 min read274 Views

An interview with Nathaniel Greenberg – author of How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in…

Language and Literature

Writing about State Violence: Commemoration & Collaboration

posted by Carla Hepburn June 28, 20197 min read396 Views

Michael Demson discusses the essays contributed to a new edited collection on Peterloo.

Photograph of a condor perched on a log against a blue sky.
International Relations

The continuing importance of Chile’s Cold War history

posted by Naomi Farmer June 4, 20196 min read454 Views

Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the…

Photograph of President Johnson at an NSC meeting in 1966. He sits in the middle with two men either side. He looks bored.
History

The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

posted by Naomi Farmer May 13, 20199 min read523 Views

As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.

The Stick
Cultural History

Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesised Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere

posted by Emma at EUP April 29, 20199 min read503 Views

By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…

International Relations

Clausewitz and Civil–Military Relations

posted by Naomi Farmer March 27, 20196 min read482 Views

Many readers of On War have taken Clausewitz’s discussion of the ‘logic’ of war tending to ‘extremes’ and concluded that…

Photograph of a British Challenger battle tank during Operation Desert Storm
British History

Does the British government learn from the history of military interventions?

posted by Naomi Farmer January 9, 20197 min read803 Views

From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.

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